Manager, IT

At NFI, we offer innovative, integrated, and customized solutions that span the entire supply chain. Whatever our customer’s challenge is, we have the knowledge, technology, scale, and commitment to help them solve it. It’s simply what we do.

As an IT Asset Manager, you’ll manage both technology and people. On the technology side, you’ll improve operational efficiencies and create value for our customers by identifying and addressing areas of improvement and by working with our internal teams to build better solutions and processes. On the people's side, you’ll build a team of high performers by recruiting, developing, mentoring, and managing individual contributors at all levels.

This role will be in person 5 days a week in Camden NJ.

• Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Coaches, mentors, and develops team members, providing them with appropriate skill-building and career development opportunities.

  • Consciously fosters an engaging, collaborative, and respectful team culture that is consistent with the NFI’s mission, vision, and values.

  • Plans and allocates resources to effectively staff and achieve individual, team, and project productivity, quality, and continuous improvement goals.

  • Establishes and maintains relevant controls and feedback systems to monitor and measure team productivity, goal achievement, and overall effectiveness.

  • Prepares periodic reports for management to track strategic goal accomplishment.

  • Actively builds and strengthens relationships with IT employees, other managers, directors, VPs, and other designated and/or relevant contacts within the organization.

  • Solicits and/or identifies problems, assuming accountability for the development and implementation of improvements in process, technology, information flow, and operational efficiency.

  • Understands how their team / area of responsibility fits into the larger organization and actively works to strengthen those connections.

  • Stays up to date with current trends and emerging technologies in their area of expertise, serving as a knowledgeable resource to all levels of the organization.

• Job-Specific Requirements:

  • Provide supervision to staff of procurement and asset management associates

  • Perform daily and long-term operational and strategic management of hardware and software assets as well as the processing of procurement requests and inquiries about existing ones

  • Plan, monitor, and record hardware assets and/or software licenses to make sure they comply with vendor contracts

  • Apply a continuous improvement approach in enhancing the strategies employed in technology spending, as well as in tracking company assets within the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) throughout their lifecycle

  • Ensure effective management of the CMDB and that the content contained is accurate

  • Provide KPI/Metric information and standardized reporting on a scheduled basis together with unscheduled reporting demanded by management

  • Generate and distribute various reports, including compliance reports on current assets and CIs and their status; also perform trend analyses

  • Establish and maintain documentation of procedures, processes, and reports concerning asset and configuration management as well as procurement processes

  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely explain technology solutions in business terms.

  • Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills

  • Proficient in the latest technology for IT systems and management

  • Proven ability and experience in executing strategic asset management and procurement processes successfully

  Expected Competencies for Managers:

  • Functional Expertise: Applies technical knowledge to produce results and make improvements. Understands how the teams’ different processes and systems impact one another.

  • Communication and Collaboration: Respectfully expresses opinions and supports difficult decisions. Develops and delivers communications (verbal and written) that convey a clear understanding of the audience’s needs. Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others, including internal and external customers, to meet shared objectives.

  • Development: Exhibits commitment to the development of NFI employees, including active ownership of self-development. Empowers and challenges team members to reach their full potential. Recruits, develops, and retains a high performing team. Actively addresses performance gaps; partners with appropriate partners.

  • Analysis and Decision Making: Uses all available resources to make good decisions. Knows when and how to partner with others when facing a problem.

  • Results Focus: Action oriented. Assumes appropriate level of accountability for goals, critical issues, and performance.

  • Managing Change and Continuous Improvement: Demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset towards change. Takes risks, creates new, and better ways for the organization to be successful.

We are excited to share that the base salary range for this position is $128,827.14 - 171,769.52 USD Annual.  This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, targeted at 3%.  NFI takes into consideration applicants' qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location when determining a starting rate of pay.  

Employees are also eligible for a robust benefit program, which includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Paid Parental Leave, among other benefit plan options.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

LA County Applicants: The Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.